Another option for Tranq on this fight is have a Pally use Devo Aura? I think that's what it is. The Physical Dmg reducer which prevents silence so you can get a good amount of your Tranq off. Worked on our kill for me last night.

We just rotated healer cooldowns and delayed opening the cage so we could get more ranged dps on Thok before transitioning. Other than that try to get a strong opening and get off a strong bleed before you transition into kiting.

FON is pretty handy on this fight for getting a little extra damage on the boss while he's fixating on players. I would recommend a pally bubble on this fight in case you get a debuff and are separated from your healers.

Millerr wrote:FON is pretty handy on this fight for getting a little extra damage on the boss while he's fixating on players. I would recommend a pally bubble on this fight in case you get a debuff and are separated from your healers.

But you need to be hitting the jailer to proc your trinkets so you can use FoN efficiently. If you're spamming it passively on Thok then you're losing more dps from not having SotF on phase 1 than you're gaining by extra "activity".

Alpheus wrote:But you need to be hitting the jailer to proc your trinkets so you can use FoN efficiently. If you're spamming it passively on Thok then you're losing more dps from not having SotF on phase 1 than you're gaining by extra "activity".

obviously you keep damage on the jailor as normal which gives trinket/dancing steel procs (the fon treants have a 40 yard range). Also I'm not quite sure what you mean by spamming, I used FON by keeping one charge on cooldown and saving the other two for procs. I should mention my technique is pretty comp specific and really only seemed to work well with short on boss phases which required more damage during fixate phases to compensate.

To keep my damage high I DPS'd the Jailer down and we delayed each door so I ran back to boss and kept on him until he was about to fixate. I ran a bit out of range until he picked a new target and then kept on him. Move of of his path to the door adds and just stick to him.

I think it's a bit of a waste to attack the jailer at all, even if it's a personal DPS gain. Feral is one of the classes best suited for sustaining damage on Thok during the kite phase (I outdamaged every other class, including ranged, on Thok himself by a pretty wide margin on our kill). Let the tanks and less mobile melee (or those that rely more on sustained melee range) deal with the jailer. They'll kill it with time to spare anyway.

You can melee Thok from the side while he's fixating. The only times you need to be out of melee range are a) the moment the fixate begins and b) a second or two after the fixate ends.

To be specific, notice there are two fixate casts: the initial cast, where he's standing still, and the spell he channels as he's moving. You want to be out of melee range at both the beginning and the end of the initial cast only. All other times are safe.

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I guess you're talking 25man here? Because in our 10man raid, it's me and a ret pally and a tank, and we pretty much kill the jailer while the ranged stay on Thok. It means long pauses for us though, whilst Thok is on the other end of the room and it's just not worth running to him while he might turn around and fixate on me next... I'm probably not seeing something, but I can't keep up with him for long either when I run alongside him hitting him, after all I shouldn't get behind him, and I use my speed buffs for kiting.

-Sibylle

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Also I'm fairly certain he won't fixate you if you're close enough. In all of our attempts, I never got fixated -- except for one time after my internet connection failed mid-attempt (so presumably I wasn't near him).

Also I'm fairly certain he won't fixate you if you're close enough. In all of our attempts, I never got fixated -- except for one time after my internet connection failed mid-attempt (so presumably I wasn't near him).

I'll try keeping up with him for a little longer next time, after the jailer is dead Thanks!

-Sibylle

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." (Brendan Gill)

Keep in mind he speeds up over time, so if you wait until the jailer is dead, you'll have the hardest time keeping up.

Also I forgot to mention: if you're meleeing Thok during kite phase, make sure your raid members give warning before they use a threat-drop ability like feign death, vanish, or shadowmeld. If they use such an ability, Thok will instantly turn around to fixate someone else -- probably killing anyone in melee range.

Stenhaldi wrote:Also I'm fairly certain he won't fixate you if you're close enough. In all of our attempts, I never got fixated -- except for one time after my internet connection failed mid-attempt (so presumably I wasn't near him).

We kept the jailer near him during kiting phase (at least at the beginning) to avoid to have a fixate, there is certainly a minimum ranged. Sadly i'm ask to specifically focus the jailer for a quick down, it's difficult to keep my bleeds on thok after this (i took divine shield +hotw to add a good tranquility on frost phase, no interrupt or ice tomb thx to divine shield... and no execute ffs !) ....

Could be a lag issue Sib. We are having tons of trouble in our 10 man raid with similar issues on other bosses. I am not sure if its server side, or an addon people are using or what, but last night especially was horrendous for several people

While we werent on thok last night, i have run beside him many times and dpsed during fixate. Just have to be careful to run out as the timer is about for the next cast.

Got our first normal kill last night 3 healing with me as the 3rd healer. We made the decision for no melee on the boss during kiting due to people dieing. Mind you, we are an Aussie guild so we all play with 2-400+ ms ping.

Knuet wrote:Are you guys picking feral swiftness to keep at boss in p2 or displacer beast?I'm a little bit worried without db to get away fast out of any trouble

Neither (I like charging the Jailer too much), and I never had a problem. If I'm one of the later fixates, I'll pop a Dash or Stampeding Roar, but he's never once been even close to catching up with me. Us ferals are naturally fast

-Sibylle

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